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Formation SAWI: Spécialiste en médias sociaux et communautés en ligne.
Rédactrice en chef et auteurActive Elsewhere
purée, avec mes soucis à moi j'ai raté la méningite de @xavier83... ouf que ça semble s'être réglé... #getwellsoon
Bookmarked a link: Path — Stephanie Booth
Tounsi in a strikingly human and masculine pose (no shame this cat has) (at Steph's Jungle) [pic] — http://t.co/NQnXmloa
bon, connection internet de retour @swisscom_care -- ça vaut bien la peine de fâcher les clients en disant d'attendre 48h
une autre voisine a aussi perdu sa connexion. je veux bien qu'on fasse des travaux mais qu'on envoie pas faire foutre les gens pdt 48h #sc
RT @sarah_marquis: Did you know a vessel make his desalinated water by evaporation more than 10'000 liter a day
RT @sarah_marquis: Did you know: take 2,16 miles to stop a cargo boat in full speed
.@Swisscom_Care internet en dérangement, encore une fois je trouve SCANDALEUX qu'on me dise qu'il faut patienter 48H avant de bouger #furax
Bookmarked a link: Gap Tooth Stickers - My name is Ashwin. I am 6 and I'm an entrepreneur!
wash-off stickers, isn't the idea great? http://t.co/OltDztfN by @GapToothKid et al.
for me, a blog going multi-author has jumped the shark and is on its way to a sure death some years down the line. anybody else?
Bookmarked a link: Path — Stephanie Booth
Blogroll
- Adam Tinworth
- Andy Baio
- Anil Dash
- Brian Kellett
- Corinne Stoppelli
- danah boyd
- Dave Winer
- David Weinberger
- Derek Powazek
- Doc Searls
- Elisabeth Stoudmann
- Fortuitous (Matt Haughey)
- Heather Powazek Champ
- Jason Kottke
- Jeffrey Zeldman
- Jeremy Keith
- Joi Ito
- JP Rangaswami
- Karl Dubost
- Kevin Marks
- Laurent Gloaguen
- Laurent Haug
- Leisa Reichelt
- Matt Haughey
- Meg Hourihan
- Plantgasm (Derek Powazek)
- Stéphane Deschamps
- Suw Charman
- Tara Hunt
- Wil Wheaton
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Headlines (Recent Posts)
- Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- More About the M-DEX, and a Cool Blog: Hack and Hear
- More About Hearing Aids (And Geeking Out a Bit)
- Post haineux de 3h du mat’ sponsorisé par Balelec
- Tounsi perdu et puis retrouvé
- Ailleurs
- Books Read in 2011
- A Plugin to Compensate for Flickr Broken Embed Suckage?
- A Week With My Superpower
- My Pallet Garden
- Having Cats
- Getting Your iCloud Photostream to Play Nice With Lightroom
- Trucs en vrac
- Three Weeks With My New Cats, Tounsi and Safran
- Drive, Practical Wisdom, Money and Congress, Alone Together
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- George Kedourie on Browser Language Detection and Redirection
- Stephanie Booth on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- Marie-Aude on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- Martin on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- mlle-cassis on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- Stephanie Booth on Browser Language Detection and Redirection
- George Kedourie on Browser Language Detection and Redirection
- Stephanie Booth on More About the M-DEX, and a Cool Blog: Hack and Hear
- Dring, venez vous faire fouiller ! « aeemtech on Outraged and Furious: First Encounter With a Full-Body Scanner (in the UK)
- When people refer to blog posts as “blogs”, I want to hurt them. | Geik on A Blog is Not a Post, Dammit!
Quote Me- "Time flies and the photos I’ve taken get left behind."
- "People always think getting dressed is about putting clothes on. It’s not. It’s a spell..."
- "I was outside, and the rain and the fog smelled nice. They smelled of hope, I think. They smelled..."
- "On apprend toujours mieux de ses propres erreurs que de celles des autres."
- "It’s like watching a train wreck and hanging around to see if there are going to be any..."
Tag Archives: presse
Comment se faire connaître comme indépendant
[en]I’m often asked how I made myself known as a freelancer. I was lucky enough to have quite a bit of coverage, but when you look closely, the way I got people to find me was through my blog. Start … Continue reading
J’aime les portraits
[en]I’m really quite happy about the article about me in the paper today. I like these “portrait” articles. The journalist has the time to talk, and it’s (until now) a very nice experience.[fr]Je crois que le portrait d’aujourd’hui dans 24heures … Continue reading
Couverture presse: contente!
[en]Two press appearances I’m really happy about. One is a radio interview about the usefulness of blogs in a corporate environment. The other is a half-page article covering the talk I gave about the internet to parents of teenagers in … Continue reading
Demain, Capsule de Pain
[en]On the radio early tomorrow morning. And the day after. Not live, thank goodness.[fr]Un mot rapide pour vous dire que je serai dans la Capsule de Pain (RSR1) demain et après-demain matin (c’est tôt, vers 7h25 il paraît — nul … Continue reading
Chassons les fautes
[en]Typos and other stuff. Encouraging readers to hunt them down in the photos I took.[fr]Comme promis hier soir aux participants du dernier Bloggy Friday, une petite chasse aux fautes. Trois images pour vous, au moins trois fautes. Cliquez sur les … Continue reading
Revue de presse pas si expresse
[en]Updated my press page. Complaint about the sorry state of some journal online archives and sites. La Liberté seems to get it right, though. All this smattered with early Sunday afternoon ramblings.[fr]Tout d’abord, un grand bonjour aux lectrices et lecteurs … Continue reading
Break Impressions
[fr]C’est la pause![en] The whole place is teeming with journalists. Sitting in front of Robert was not a good idea if I wanted to spend a quiet break at my place. Update: 9 people in the backchannel after the break! … Continue reading
Etre Madame Blogs
[en]You may or may not know that I’ve become the person journalists contact around here when they have an article to write about blogs. Not always, but often. Media fame is neat, but can be tiring when it becomes routine, … Continue reading
Archives en ligne de trois quotidiens romands: quel désastre
Etude du désastre que sont les archives en ligne sur les sites de 24 Heures, Le Temps, et Le Matin. Moteurs de recherche cassés, archives payantes, mauvaise indexation par Google en l’absence de liens externes… Il est temps que nos quotidiens se réveillent et découvrent comment utiliser le web de façon plus profitable, et compatible avec leur mission d’information!
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De l’inutilité des blogs
[en]A local editor/journalist wrote an article in which he basically says blogs are useless noise. My reactions to some of the (IMHO) unfair attacks he makes towards blogs.[fr]Dans son article Bloghorrée saisonnière, Philippe Barraud lance un certain nombre d’attaques à … Continue reading →